JALALABAD (Pajhwok): Three people were killed and more than 10 others arrested during a raid by security force on the residence of a senior banker in eastern Nangarhar province, an official said on Wednesday. Special Forces raided the house of...

KABUL (Pajhwok): The Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) on Thursday said 20 of the 104 people wounded in Wednesday’s blasts in Kabul were in critical condition. At least 16 people were killed and 104 others wounded in the bombings that rattled the...

KABUL (Pajhwok): At least 64 people were killed and 234 others wounded as twin explosions ripped through a mammoth rally staged by the Hazara minority in Kabul on Saturday, the Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) said. Mohammad Ismael Kawasi, the...

JALALABAD (Pajhwok): The Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC) head for the eastern zone has expressed her concern over civilian displacement by the conflict in Nangarhar province. Sabrina Hamidi, in an exclusive interview with...

KABUL (Pajhwok): At least 49 Daesh and Taliban militants have suffered casualties during air and ground operations in different areas of eastern Nangarhar province, officials claimed on Sunday. The governor’s spokesman, Attaullah Khogyani, told...

JOZJAN CITY (Pajhwok): Tajor a woman, who lost three members of her family to recent, fighting between Taliban and Government in Jozjan province, has been forced to shoulder responsibility for looking after her children.

KABUL (Pajhwok): Following talks between the two sides, Afghanistan and Pakistan reopened the Torkham border crossing for traffic on Saturday, an official said. Some days back, Pakistan tried to construct a gate at the border to check what it called...

KABUL (Pajhwok): Haseebullah Shahabi, a 25 years old man with disability who recently found his way to the Kabul University, says special people can excel at studies and have equal chances of success. A resident of Panjsher province, Shahabi is born...

KUNDUZ CITY (Pajhwok):Ten passengers have been found dead while 18 others are still missing after militants stopped their vehicles on main highway on the outskirts of the capital of northern Kunduz province, an official said on Tuesday. Acting...

KHOST CITY (Pajhwok): Staff Sergeant Mohammad Nazir, a policeman who lost his eyes in a bomb attack by militants, blasts the government for ignoring him following his incapacitation. A resident of the Ismailkhel Mandozai district of southeastern...

KABUL CITY (Pajhwok): At least 10 civilians were killed and four others wounded in a suicide attack on a bus carrying court employees in Kabul on Wednesday morning, an official said. Najib Danish, deputy spokesman for the Ministry of Interior (MoI...

CHARIKAR (Pajhwok): A roadside bomb struck a foreign troops’ convoy in the Bagram district of central Parwan province on Saturday, NATO’s Resolute Support (RS) mission said, denying any casualties. “We can confirm that one coalition vehicle was...

KABUL Pajhwok): Vice-President Mohammad Karim Khalili’s call on Monday convinced thousands of people to end a mammoth protest in the heart of Kabul against the route of a multi-country power project. The angry protestors asked the government to...

LASHKARGAH (Pajhwok): At least four people killed and 12 others wounded in a car suicide bombing on Afghan Local Police (ALP) academy in Nadali district of southern Helmand province Saturday, an official said.

KABUL (Pajhwok): Ali Haider Ali Gilani, son of former prime minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani, was handed over to senior Pakistani officials in Kabul on Wednesday, a day after he was rescued during a joint operation by Afghan and US special forces...

GARDIZ (Pajhwok): Hundreds of people from southern Paktia province staged a rally, asking President Ashraf Ghani not to change the route of a multinational power project. The Turkmenistan-Uzbekistan-Tajikistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan (TUTAP) power...